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Using Procurement to Support Sustainable Local Food Systems
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Using Procurement to Support Sustainable Local Food Systems

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This podcast examines Health Care Without Harm’s Anchors in Resilient Communities initiative and how healthcare organizations can support sustainable food procurement and employment opportunities. Speakers include Nessia Berner Wong, MPH, Senior Policy Analyst at Change Lab Solutions, and Lauren Poor, MPH, a Regional Program Manager with the Healthy Food in Health Care program at Health Care Without Harm.

This is the fourth in a series of six Coffee & Science events on topics related to Alignment and Advocacy, which are the last two “A”s of the National Academy of Medicine’s framework that SIREN’s used to organize Coffee & Science. Alignment and Advocacy are both about what health care can do at the community level to address social conditions.

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